My favourite part of the book was the epilogue, I realise that sounds strange, but it was just stunning and I thought it was the perfect ending to the story.
The Husband's Secret was published here in the UK by Penguin at the end of August, and I'm really delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for the book.
I have a paperback copy of The Husband's Secret to give away too, entering is easy-peasy, just fill out the Rafflecopter widget at the bottom of this post.
Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of five internationally best-selling novels, Three Wishes,The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist's Love Story and The Husband's Secret.
Writing as L.M.Moriarty, she is also the author of the Space Brigade books for children, (published in the US as the Nicola Berry, Earthling Ambassador series).
It's great to welcome Liane to Random Things today, she's answered a couple of questions;
How did you get the idea for
the novel?
Two years ago I stumbled
upon a fascinating article about real-life deathbed confessions. I learned
about Christian Spurling, who confessed on his deathbed to faking a notorious
photo of the Loch Ness Monster. There was afamous songwriter who was dying of
cancer who wrote a letter admitting, after years of adamant denials, that she
had plagiarized a lullaby melody. Then there was the hapless man who, after
suffering a stroke, confessed he’d killed his neighbour thirty years earlier.
The only problem was that he didn’t end up dying. After he was released from
hospital, he went straight to jail. These stories, particularly the one about
the man who didn’t die, got me
thinking. I was intrigued by that overwhelming desire to share your darkest
secret. So I came up with the idea of a man who feels such a powerful desire to
share a secret that he sits down and writes a letter to his wife, to be opened
in the event of his death. It’s a deathbed confession, except he’s not dead.
What
do you do in your spare time when you’re not writing?
I
read in bed, read in the bath, read in the TV commercials, sleep, eat
chocolate, work off all that chocolate in gym classes, ski (not that I ski
every weekend, but I thought I should mention something outdoorsy), and now it
occurs to me that I haven’t mentioned my children, and I don’t know how I could
have forgotten them, because they are currently with the babysitter, screaming
their darling little heads off in the hallway just outside my office door. What
I actually do when I’m not writing is take care of my five-year-old son and
three-year-old daughter, and I like that very much.
Take a look at the promotional video for The Husband's Secret :
Great giveaway this sounds a brillaint idea for a book
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fab giveaway, I'd love to read this one!
ReplyDeleteSounds fabulous, I have heard so many good things about this book!
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting Anne. Death Bed confessions. I feel quite bad that I don't have anything juicy to share on my death bed! ha ha.
ReplyDeleteEveryone seems to be talking about this book. Would love to read it to see does it live up to the hype.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent summer read with a real life lesson regarding the many dimensions of our life. I certainly identified with some of the characteristics of these interesting women. 's Moriarty has a way with characters and story. I read it cover to cover in one binge read!
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